Off-day multimedia: Two Red Wings radio interviews and quickly-made 'history'

Two members of the Red Wings' organization made appearances on The Fan 590 on Wednesday morning, with Wings coach Mike Babcock giving Paul MacLean and Darren Millard a nearly-thirteen-minute-long interview in which he talks about, well, oodles of stuff, but what you might want to know includes the following:

1. The Red Wings plan on holding a team meeting tonight instead of practicing;

2. Babcock isn't happy with the schedule, and he feels that a two-day break after Game 2 is absolutely necessary so that the Wings' players can reconnect with their families after a week away from home, so that the players can re-set in terms of adjusting to Eastern Daylight Time, and so that the Wings can recover from cross-continental travel. He believes that NBC won't hold an afternoon game next weekend, too;

3. The Wings have a "girl" who puts together playoff briefings on each and every opponent, and the Wings' playbook, so to speak, is en route to San Jose as I type this;

4. Babcock felt that Jimmy Howard both earned his wins and got a little lucky in doing so, which should help his confidence, and he gives Howard serious praise for sticking with it after Vernon Fiddler's off-the-faceoff goal snuck by him because goaltenders in a 2-1 game are essentially set up to lose the game for you, not win it, and Howard stood tall;

5. Babcock admits that even he wondered whether the team could win a playoff round after three successive three-round runs because they might be "out of gas";

6. "In the cap era," Babcock suggests, winning a single round is a tremendous accomplishment in itself;

7. He also believes that Valtteri Filppula has been the Wings' best forward thus far, and, obviously, "The Mule" has to get going, but Babcock believes that Franzen is "just getting his legs back";

8. Nicklas Lidstrom did receive a birthday cake on the flight from Phoenix to San Jose, but that was the extent of the team's celebrations for their 40-year-old captain.

Brad May also spoke to The Fan 590's Brad Hogan, and his 4-minute interview includes a not-so-surprising comment: the Wings' mood on their flight to San Jose was, "Business as usual," a few high fives excluded:

Finally, per Kukla's Korner, NHL.com posted its latest "History Will Be Made" ad, pondering what would happen to the Red Wings if the NHL Entry Draft ended after the fifth round:

I think I'm in an extremely small minority here, but once the NHL posted the ad where the Stanley Cup is literally taken from Vladimir Konstantinov's hands, these things began to make me cringe. I want to treasure the achievements that are instead of wondering what could have happened if the Wings didn't accomplish them.